Category Archives: Click Fraud and Spam

AdBrite Re-Emerges Ready to Disrupt with New Team and Renewed Vigor
Ad & Media Strategies
November 16, 2012 posted by Otilia Otlacan

AdBrite Re-Emerges Ready to Disrupt with New Team and Renewed Vigor

AdBrite, Inc., the leading independent online ad exchange, along with its new executive team led by CEO Hardeep Bindra, today announced new features and functionality for its all-inclusive exchange, benefiting both advertisers and publishers at no additional cost. These features include full URL-level transparency from its publishers, content classification into IAB ad categories powered by Peer39, click fraud monitoring by Adometry, a Publisher Floor Price Recommender developed in-house, and the AdBrite Intelligence campaign and audience measurement tool for advertisers.

Solve Media Uncovers $1.5 Billion in Wasted Ad Spend
Ad & Media Strategies
September 28, 2012 posted by Otilia Otlacan

Solve Media Uncovers $1.5 Billion in Wasted Ad Spend

Solve Media (www.SolveMedia.com) today revealed that 10 percent of all online traffic is generated by bots – softwareapplications that run automated processes across the Web. eMarketer predicts online display ad spend will reach $15.3 billion globally in 2012, which means that potentially $1.5 billion in ads will be served to bots. Since 2011, Solve Media has witnessed a 400 percent rise in aberrant traffic across registration, voting, commenting and contact services on the web. The company’s CAPTCHA-based advertising technology provides security authentication solutions for publishers.

AdSafe Media Announces the Release of Suspicious Activity Ratings
Ad & Media Strategies
July 18, 2012 posted by Otilia Otlacan

AdSafe Media Announces the Release of Suspicious Activity Ratings

AdSafe Media, the leading global provider of actionable advertising intelligence data for buyers and sellers of digital media, today announced the enhancement of its proactive brand safety solution for advertisers and agencies with a new level of protection: Suspicious Activity Detection (SAD). The new offering takes the company’s leading solution for fraud identification a step further, introducing the industry’s first and only proactive protection against inventory suspicious of both click fraud and impression fraud.